Penny Anguish is a retired health-care executive with a clinical background in nursing and extensive senior leadership experience across British Columbia and northern Ontario. Her career focused on rural and remote health-care delivery, where she developed deep expertise in integrated health and social service systems, organizational governance, and community engagement.
Throughout her leadership roles, Penny worked closely with boards and governance structures, participating in board meetings, committees, strategic planning sessions, and community engagement processes. A collaborative systems thinker, she has partnered with municipalities, First Nations communities, regional hospital districts, and organizations across the health, education, and social sectors.
Earlier in her career, Penny led Decision Support functions, building expertise in health system performance measurement and information technology infrastructure at organizational, provincial, and national levels. She also provided executive leadership in accreditation and workplace health and safety initiatives.
Penny holds diploma, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees in nursing, a graduate diploma in business administration, and advanced health-care leadership training. Since relocating to Nanaimo, within the ancestral lands of the Snuneymuxw First Nation, she is becoming involved in philanthropy, the arts, and community initiatives.
Penny Anguish was first appointed to the Board of Island Health on April 30, 2026. Her current term expires on April 30, 2027.